#Whisperer in darkness movie movie
Lovecraft Historical Society, and like that group's previous go at the task of making a movie from the author's works (2005's The Call of Cthulhu), the first half of this movie is burdened with a great deal of narration that presumably works better on the page than the screen. Lovecraft's works have often been considered unadaptable. Akeley asks his son George (Joe Sofranko) to deliver a strange black idol found in a nearby cave to Wilmarth on his way to California, but George never shows, and when the elder Akeley invites Wilmarth to pay him a visit, things in this small Vermont town seem very strange.ĭespite his long-lasting and highly devoted fanbase - and, in some ways, because of how demanding such groups can be - H.P.
Wilmarth has been studying them as folklore, and to that end has been exchanging letters with Henry Akeley (Barry Lynch), a fellow folklorist who lives much closer to the scene in Vermont. Rumors abound in regards to strange things up in the green mountains of Vermont, but Professor Albert Wilmarth (Matt Foyer) of Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts gives them very little credence as modern, genuine phenomena, though his friend, cult investigator Nathaniel Ward (Matt Lagan), says these beliefs are nonetheless dangerous. It doesn't have nearly as much money behind it but it has a lot of love for the material and makes that work for it. Lovecraft's "In the Mountains of Madness", and I certainly hope that all those saying that the studio was leaving money on the table are seeking out "The Whisper in Darkness".
SCREENED AT THE 2011 FANTASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: There was no small amount of tooth-gnashing earlier this year when Universal backed out of a big-name, big-money production of H.P. " A Lovecraft adaptation in love with its craft."
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